Kansas vs. UCLA

Kansas and UCLA have 7 meetings on file, the first in 1953; UCLA leads the series 5–⁠2 in the games on file. Over the last 7 meetings it’s UCLA 5–⁠2.

Kansas wins
2
UCLA wins
5
Ties
0
Earliest on file
1953
Longest streak
4 UCLA
Current streak
1 UCLA
Last 10 meetings
UCLA 5–⁠2
Most recent
2001

The series at a glance

Every meeting by decade, colored by the winner
’0’1’2’3’4’5’6’7’8’9W–L
1950s0–⁠3
1970s1–⁠1
1990s1–⁠0
2000s0–⁠1
Average margin
15.6 points; 1 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
At Kansas
1–⁠2 Kansas’s record at home
At UCLA
3–⁠0 UCLA’s record at home
Neutral sites
1–⁠0 Kansas first
Shutouts
1

Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.

Games that tell the story

  1. Kansas’s biggest win1995: Kansas 51, UCLA 30by 21 points
  2. UCLA’s biggest win1954: UCLA 32, Kansas 7by 25 points
  3. Upset1978: Kansas 28, UCLA 24Kansas had a 30% chance, by our ratings before kickoff

Both programs through the years

End-of-season Elo ratings of Kansas and UCLA, 1953 on1300150017001960197019801990200020102020

Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.

Stars of the series

Named most valuable

Karim Abdul-Jabbar UCLA1995
Mark Williams Kansas1995

Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).

From the newspapers

  • The Evening star's story of the 1954 game: Maryland

    1954 · Evening star, District of Columbia, Sep 28, 1954

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.

Every game

Sep 8, 200114UCLA 41, Kansas 17at Kansas
Dec 25, 199511Kansas 51, UCLA 30Neutral siteAloha Bowl
Sep 23, 1978Kansas 28, 8UCLA 24at Kansas
Sep 17, 197714UCLA 17, Kansas 7at UCLA
Nov 17, 1956UCLA 13, Kansas 0at UCLA
Sep 25, 19548UCLA 32, Kansas 7at Kansas
Sep 25, 19534UCLA 19, Kansas 7at UCLA

Every game is listed as played on the field.